Why did this movie fail at the theaters?

Rating: 8/10 (14 February 2006)

It's amazing. I saw that movie a second time on DVD and it made a deeper impression on me than the first time. The plot so well elaborated, the -in my humble opinion- most impressive action scenes of the year (including the best car chase i ever saw, that made the matrix-reloaded highway scene looking pale and cg-doped), fine actors, gripping lines, a superb camera-operating and color-grading in the post-production etc. This movie is -while far from unpredictable- totally satisfying and Bay and his crew did a fine job. So how comes that movie was such a loss at the box-office (for sure the relatiely most unsuccessful in 2005)? In ten years it will be a classic in its genre and further viewer-generations -who are bored with cg will wonder how there were real people who could be so crazy to do such stunts.